Karma and chittashuddhi

We all living beings come into this world with a baggage – a baggage that consists of a set of desires that our embodied soul wants to fulfill by coming into this Creation based on the duality of pains and pleasures. This baggage can be looked at as bag full of coins. The coin has two sides – on one side, there is our action at a given moment and on the other side, there is an immediate fruit of it by way of clearing one small (or big) desire out of the baggage that we have brought with us into this world. A serious spiritual seeker should look at every moment in his life as an act of taking out a coin from the bag and putting it into the divine hundi of Creation. That is chittashuddhi.

We should keep in mind that the action that we take is not for fulfilling a desire that our conditioned mind has ACQUIRED after coming into this world. The action is for fulfilling a desire at the level of the limited soul and that desire was pre-existing when we were born.

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In other words, our life is not for getting more and more pleasurable experiences, the desires for which arise from the ongoing conditioning of our mind; it is not for acquiring more and more worldly possessions; it is not for exploiting relations for our own pleasures. Our life is solely for the purpose of clearing out the baggage that our soul brought with it while getting embodied.